terret

English

Etymology

Alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English toret, turret (“half-ring, eyelet”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman turette, diminutive of tur (“circuit, ring”). More at turn.

Noun

terret (plural terrets)

1. One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23[1]

     She had a good idea of what was coming, and the moment York took the rein off the terret in order to shorten it, she took her opportunity, and reared up so suddenly, that York had his nose roughly hit, and his hat knocked off

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “terret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• retter

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) terret

1. third-person singular present active indicative of terreō